Patents by Inventor Takashi Yashima

Takashi Yashima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080092826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion control device incorporated in an apparatus such as water heater and provides the combustion control device having an improved configuration with a main controller and a sub controller, capable of employing a microcomputer with lower capability as the sub controller, and ensuring higher safety than ever before. Signals indicating a combustion state of a combustion apparatus are inputted into the main controller 35 and the sub controller 36 in parallel. Upon fulfillment of a predetermined condition of stopping, the main and sub controllers 35 and 36 each output a stop signal to cut off a current to be supplied to a device driving circuit 42. The conditions of stopping in outputting of the stop signal by the main and sub controllers are such that the sub controller 36 is less apt to execute the cutoff than the main controller 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicants: Noritz Corporation, Noritz Electronics Technology Corporation Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kishimoto, Yuji Takagi, Masayoshi Yasukawa, Akira Takabayashi, Shinichi Okamoto, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Takashi Yashima, Masanori Kubotani
  • Patent number: 6830120
    Abstract: A floor working machine including a self-propelled vehicle body including a working implement for treating a floor surface; U-turn control means for causing the self-propelled vehicle body to make a U-turn automatically to adjust the working implement to a work line adjacent a work line treated before said U-turn; spin turn control means for causing the self-propelled vehicle body to make a spin turn automatically to align said working implement to a work line treated before the spin turn; and running control means for automatically controlling said U-turn control means and the spin turn control means in response to input signals for causing the self-propelled vehicle body to make selectively a U-turn under control of the U-turn control means and a spin turn under control of the spin turn control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Penguin Wax Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yashima, Yasuhiro Ueda